Inflection
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...The name stem is given to a root together with its derivational affixes; thus in racket-eer-s, racket is the root, racketeer the stem, and -s the plural inflection. Beginning in the 19th cent., the modification of a root or base by the amount...